below are the weekly national top ten hits from 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70 years ago
as reported by the music industry's two major trade publications
Billboard and Cash Box
BILLBOARD - JULY 25, 1987 - 30 YEARS AGO 1 Alone - Heart 2 Shakedown - Bob Seger 3 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2 4 I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) - Whitney Houston 5 I Want Your Sex - George Michael 6 Rhythm Is Gonna Get You - Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine 7 Something So Strong - Crowded House 8 Heart And Soul - T'Pau 9 Don't Disturb This Groove - The System 10 Point Of No Return - Expose CASH BOX - JULY 25, 1987 - 30 YEARS AGO 1 Alone - Heart 2 Shakedown - Bob Seger 3 I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) - Whitney Houston 4 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2 5 I Want Your Sex - George Michael 6 Songbird - Kenny G 7 Point Of No Return - Expose 8 Rhythm Is Gonna Get You - Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine 9 Heart And Soul - T'Pau 10 Something So Strong - Crowded House BILLBOARD - JULY 30, 1977 - 40 YEARS AGO 1 I Just Want To Be Your Everything - Andy Gibb 2 I'm In You - Peter Frampton 3 Looks Like We Made It - Barry Manilow 4 My Heart Belongs To Me - Barbra Streisand 5 Da Doo Ron Ron - Shaun Cassidy 6 Best Of My Love - The Emotions 7 Do You Wanna Make Love - Peter McCann 8 Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett 9 (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher And Higher - Rita Coolidge 10 Whatcha Gonna Do - Pablo Cruise CASH BOX - JULY 30, 1977 - 40 YEARS AGO 1 I Just Want To Be Your Everything - Andy Gibb 2 I'm In You - Peter Frampton 3 Undercover Angel - Alan O'Day 4 Da Doo Ron Ron - Shaun Cassidy 5 My Heart Belongs To Me - Barbra Streisand 6 Whatcha Gonna Do - Pablo Cruise 7 Looks Like We Made It - Barry Manilow 8 (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher And Higher - Rita Coolidge 9 Do You Wanna Make Love - Peter McCann 10 You Made Me Believe In Magic - The Bay City Rollers BILLBOARD - JULY 29, 1967 - 50 YEARS AGO 1 Light My Fire - The Doors 2 I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder 3 Windy - The Association 4 Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Frankie Valli 5 A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum 6 Little Bit O' Soul - The Music Explosion 7 Mercy, Mercy, Mercy - The Buckinghams 8 White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane 9 Up -- Up And Away - The 5th Dimension 10 C'mon Marianne - The 4 Seasons CASH BOX - JULY 27, 1967 - 50 YEARS AGO 1 Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Frankie Valli 2 Light My Fire - The Doors 3 Windy - The Association 4 Up -- Up And Away - The 5th Dimension 5 Come On Down To My Boat - Every Mother's Son 6 I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder 7 Little Bit O' Soul - The Music Explosion 8 A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum 9 C'mon Marianne - The 4 Seasons 10 San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie BILLBOARD - JULY 29, 1957 - 60 YEARS AGO 1 Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley 2 Love Letters In The Sand - Pat Boone 3 Searchin' - The Coasters 4 Bye Bye Love - The Everly Brothers 5 So Rare - Jimmy Dorsey 6 Send For Me - Nat King Cole 7 It's You I Love - Fats Domino 8 Short Fat Fannie - Larry Williams 9 Old Cape Cod - Patti Page 10 Whispering Bells - The Dell-Vikings CASH BOX - JULY 27, 1957 - 60 YEARS AGO 1 Bye Bye Love - The Everly Brothers 2 Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley 3 Love Letters In The Sand - Pat Boone 4 I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter - Billy Williams 5 It's Not For Me To Say - Johnny Mathis 6 So Rare - Jimmy Dorsey 7 Searchin' - The Coasters 8 Old Cape Cod - Patti Page 9 Around The World - Victor Young 10 White Silver Sands - Don Rondo BILLBOARD - JULY 26, 1947 - 70 YEARS AGO 1 Peg O' My Heart - The Harmonicats 2 Chi-Baba Chi-Baba - Perry Como 3 Temptation - Red Ingle and the Natural Seven with Cinderella G. Stump 4 Peg O' My Heart - The Three Suns 5 That's My Desire - Sammy Kaye 6 I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder - Eddy Howard 7 Peg O' My Heart - Art Lund 8 Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams 9 I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder - Guy Lombardo 10 Peg O' My Heart - Buddy Clark CASH BOX - JULY 28, 1947 - 70 YEARS AGO 1 Peg O' My Heart - The Harmonicats : Suns : Lund : Clark 2 Chi-Baba Chi-Baba - Perry Como 3 I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder - Eddy Howard : Lombardo 4 That's My Desire - Sammy Kaye 5 Across The Alley From The Alamo - The Mills Brothers 6 Temptation - Red Ingle and the Natural Seven with Cinderella G. Stump 7 Ivy - Jo Stafford 8 Tallahassee - Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters 9 Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams 10 Mam'selle - Art Lund
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